With simply three weeks to go till the presidential election, Donald Trump’s marketing campaign has taken a wierd flip.
The GOP nominee for president has by no means been one to play by the political rulebook, however his latest appearances have been particularly weird: He’s swayed onstage to music as an alternative of taking questions, trashed folks he’s additionally attempting to courtroom as voters and spent valuable time campaigning in solidly blue states, to call a number of.
Listed below are a number of the puzzling issues he’s been as much as these days in his race in opposition to Vice President Kamala Harris.
His city corridor turned a 40-minute musical tribute
Throughout a Pennsylvania city corridor Monday evening, Trump abruptly stated he was achieved taking questions and wished to “just listen to music,” directing his workers to play “a couple of real beauties.”
What adopted was practically 40 minutes of Trump singing alongside, swaying and frivolously dancing on stage to a canopy of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” together with varied hits by Sinead O’Connor, Elvis Presley, Weapons N’ Roses and the Village Folks.
Even Trump appeared confused at occasions about what was unfolding, remarking after one of many first songs that “there’s nobody leaving” and requested, “What’s going on?” The group appeared not sure whether or not the occasion was over.
He inexplicably disparaged auto staff
Trump’s marketing campaign has been aggressively pursuing assist from auto staff in Michigan, the capital of American automobile manufacturing. However he threw all that out the window Tuesday when he diminished their jobs as merely taking components “out of a box” and stated the work was really easy a toddler may do it.
“They build everything in Germany, and then they assemble it here. They get away with murder,” Trump claimed throughout an look on the Financial Membership of Chicago.
“They take them out of a box, and they assemble them. We could have our child doing it,” he continued.
He rattled off about Virginia when requested about Google
In one other odd second throughout his Chicago look on Tuesday, Trump responded to a query about whether or not Google needs to be damaged up by saying he hasn’t “gotten over” the Justice Division suing the state of Virginia for eradicating folks from voter rolls.
Then, when the interviewer reminded Trump that the query was about Google, Trump stated the tech firm “is very bad to me.”
“I called the head of Google the other day and said I’m getting a lot of good stories lately, but you don’t find them in Google,” Trump stated. “I think it’s a whole rigged deal. I think Google is rigged just like our government is rigged all over the place.”
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He canceled a deliberate look on CNBC
Joe Kernen, one of many hosts of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” revealed on air Tuesday that Trump pulled out of an upcoming interview on the present.
Sources aware of the unique plans advised The Each day Beast that the interview was purported to occur later this week, till Trump abruptly canceled. A Trump spokesperson advised CNN he canceled as a result of a scheduling battle.
This marks the second time this month Trump has skipped out on a significant interview. After canceling his look on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” he posted a number of indignant rants on social media calling the century-old community “A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY” and demanding its broadcast license be revoked.
He’s been scheduling rallies in solidly blue states
Whereas presidential candidates sometimes maintain most of their rallies in swing states ― a political necessity of the electoral school ― Trump has been scheduling a few of his closing occasions of the election in solidly blue states like California, Colorado, Illinois and New York.
His resolution to spend any period of time and assets in states he has no likelihood of profitable has baffled pundits.
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He’s even repeatedly insisted that he’s going to flip his residence state of New York although no main polls point out that. A Republican hasn’t gained the state in 40 years.
He’s additionally been exaggerating crowd sizes at his blue-state occasions. After holding a rally in California’s Coachella Valley on Saturday, Trump boasted about having 100,000 attendees. Whereas the precise variety of attendees is unclear, a allow issued for the occasion reportedly capped attendance at 15,000.
